As a disabled Persian Gulf Vet I can assure you that I am indeed paying taxes. True,not at the rate most of you might be owning new cars and living in nicer homes,but I am still paying taxes.

I live on just $1700.00 a month and I have to rent a place to live,drive a 1992 pick-up truck,my computer is my only source of entertainment(cant afford cable or even want it),dont get to take vacations and I could go on and on.

I am sick of people stating that “poor people” dont pay any taxes.

A flat tax will hopefully end the use of this “stupid agruement” by people that have too much that is taxable and find it easy to go onto the Internet and bitch about us poor people and how we are part of the problem.

The problem is in your state capital and Washington.If they didnt have to spend so much your taxes would be greatly lower. Please put the blame where it truly belongs and stop picking on those of us that are struggling to survive on what little we do have.

With our current government in DC I think all of you will be living just like very soon. I want to see who you bitch at then.

Not that they’re kind to anyone else, mind you.

Your chart would likely look different if, instead of basing it on which party held the Presidency, it was based on which party had full control of congress. Stephen is right, I didn’t think it was possible that anyone could look more stupid than the R’s. How sad that we’re wrong….

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124303024230548323.html:

In a speech at the Kennedy School of Government in February, he wrung his hands about “the very deep hole [our political leaders] have dug in incurring unfunded liabilities of retirement and health-care obligations” that “we at the Dallas Fed believe total over $99 trillion.” In March, he is believed to have vociferously objected in closed-door FOMC meetings to the proposal to buy U.S. Treasury bonds. So with long-term Treasury yields moving up sharply despite Fed intentions to bring down mortgage rates, I’ve flown to Dallas to see what he’s thinking now.

The guy being quoted? Head of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank. Is that someone sufficiently knowledgeable of the situation for you, or do you need a higher authority? Like, maybe, an editor at Rolling Stone.

Who was in control of the Legislature during 90+% of the time post-Depression? Oh, wait. Democrats. Who has budget creation power? Oh, wait. Congress. Duh. Civics 101.

I’m detecting a pattern here.

I’ll dig up the “$75 to $100 trillion” (nice Dowdism there, on your part; you sure you’re not a member of the Press?) number. I’ve read various numbers over the last few years, and they’ve done nothing but go up. A couple of weeks ago, I read $99 trillion. I’m sure you’ll accuse me of lying because of the glaring discrepancy between 99 and 100. But there you go.

It’s in Obama’s best interest (politically speaking) to do the least amount possible, but sound good doing it, until about April 2010.

I was under the impression that the lobotomized were still institutionalized. No?

Republicans (and conservatives) always presume that wars end depressions, and cannot deny that governments take over the economy and drive massive deficits to make war

Let’s see here. Between Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and now the Medicare drug benefits enacted during Bush’s tenure, we’re staring at an unfunded liability somewhere on the order of $75 to $100 trillion.

That’s $100,000,000,000,000. Got that JD?

Please identify one piece of any of those liabilities that are geared to making war. Well, besides the war on our economy and fundamental liberties. And yes, my underlying assumption is that the Republicans are just as much to blame for these liabilities as the Democrats. But your presumption that massive deficits (a logical and inescapable consequence of said liabilities noted above) are purely the blame of Republicans and Conservatives is reprehensible. I’m not a Republican, but I still find the mendacity of your claims to be appalling.

I’ll see your “massive deficits” and raise you a big-ol’ “Bite Me”, you God-forsaken tool.

Sure they can. Watch me:

To the (large!) extent that the government interfered with the economy 2001-2008, the purpose was not to make war. Defense spending was historically low. (Hell, military casualties were historically low – 2/3 as many members of the armed forces died under Clinton as under Bush, and the rate under Bush was comparable to the rate under Reagan.) The deficit wasn’t necessary for the war, it was necessary to have the Medicare drug benefit, leave Social Security unfixed, and have the war.

In point of fact, “The “Stimulus” was designed to take money out of the private sector capital markets and to put it under the control political action on behalf of Congress and its parasitical lobbyists.

The fact that money was poured into “the Stimulus” and nothing happened is not a bug, its a feature, that is precisely what was supposed to happen.

With the Private Sector now choked off from its life giving capital, the only source of possible funding is the say so of those “cool, cool considerate men” on Capitol Hill. You want access, you have to pay. Fail to pay, and you will fail to compete for available cash in the market.

If you wanted to make the private sector economy improve, you wouldnt take private money out of the market, you would lower tax burdens and give big incentives to make sure that all the private capital that is out there lining mattresses would get out into the marketplace to make more money. But this is not what we are doing. What we are doing with “The Stimulus” is to make sure that the private sector is as small and distinctly non private as possible for Congress to keep its power over the lives of the citizenry.

Remember, its not the mission of politicians to make the marketplace safe for you to invest your in, its their mission in life to make sure you pay them to get to your money first.Its so bad that they don’t even think that its your money, they think its theirs.

The private sector, being a free market entity is the enemy of politicians everywhere and what is “Stimulating” about “The Stimulus” is how it feeds the dreams of bureaucrats everywhere to its new found ability micromanage the lives of free people.

Steven your tax plan is horribly flawed. First of all there’s no room for graft or corruption, much less infleunce peddling so its going to face bipartisan opposition. Besides, we need the government directing spending, otherwise people have to spend their own money and we’ve seen how wasteful they are with that. You end up with non-profitable businesses going under and profitable business adapting and thriving and that’s just crazy…

It’s pretty obvious Janus is a newcomer to this site or he’d know better than to assume it’s a hotbed of RNC talking points.

OrAnd, he’s just stupid.

FTFY.